About This Event
Join us all season for a fabulous speaker series relating to the Five C's of Arizona sponsored by PCHM and the Viney Jones Library. All programs are no charge on the second Friday at 10:00 am (September, October, January, February, March, April, and May). Our May 10th presentation is titled "History of Arizona Water Use and Farming Cultures" by Jim Turner.
This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day American farmers. We will examine how overhunting and climate change affected the woolly mammoth populations and the agriculture experiments that followed. From early attempts to increase the growth of wild plants to some the earliest irrigation canal projects in North America the Southwest’s indigenous people developed methods to survive the regions’ harsh climate. The Hopi and Tohono O’odham cultures not only altered their physical environment but developed a cultural belief system that espoused frugality and harmony with their natural surroundings. This presentation also describes major water use legislation over more than three centuries.
This program is co-hosted and made possible by the Friends of the Viney Jones Library.
We encourage you to RSVP, but tickets are not required to attend the program.
About This Event
Join us all season for a fabulous speaker series relating to the Five C's of Arizona sponsored by PCHM and the Viney Jones Library. All programs are no charge on the second Friday at 10:00 am (September, October, January, February, March, April, and May). Our May 10th presentation is titled "History of Arizona Water Use and Farming Cultures" by Jim Turner.
This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day American farmers. We will examine how overhunting and climate change affected the woolly mammoth populations and the agriculture experiments that followed. From early attempts to increase the growth of wild plants to some the earliest irrigation canal projects in North America the Southwest’s indigenous people developed methods to survive the regions’ harsh climate. The Hopi and Tohono O’odham cultures not only altered their physical environment but developed a cultural belief system that espoused frugality and harmony with their natural surroundings. This presentation also describes major water use legislation over more than three centuries.
This program is co-hosted and made possible by the Friends of the Viney Jones Library.
We encourage you to RSVP, but tickets are not required to attend the program.